Day 14 – 20th March 2024

I had some free time in the morning, so I decided to do some laundry. In the hotel I was staying in, there’s a laundry room. There are two main disadvantages to this. 1. You need a HK mobile number and 2. There’s only 2 washers and 2 dryers. It was a pain in the a*** just to wait for each person to use the washer then again wait for the dryer.

Did a lot of reading in between each time I went to the laundry room. I almost finished reading The Housemaid’s Secret by Freida McFadden!! (The week before, I finished Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver – such a long book, but it will definitely be a future classical reading like To Kill a Mockingbird).

After doing the laundry and resting a bit more, I went back to Sai Kung – DaddyChef’s home village since I hadn’t done my blessings with my ancestors because it was raining on the day I went back. I managed to get some roast pork from the fresh food market, and quickly did some shopping…

Shouldn’t forget about the street art… I think this has been there for a fairly long time if I remember correctly.

Back in DaddyChef’s home village, and went on an impromptu boat trip with one of my cousins and his son… Pretty cool right? The area is a private part of the sea, so not many people go there.

Then back for dinner before sunset. Didn’t eat too much rice, but had a lot of the spring rolls made by the housemaids. 😋😋😋

Day 15 – 21st March 2024

My free day to go shopping! So back to Ma On Shan I go. I prefer this place than going to the Shatin New Town Plaza, purely because it’s cheaper and there’s a lot of different shops to browse around. New Town Plaza has too many brands but it doesn’t has that HK cheap shopping that I like. Uniqueness is what I was looking for. Not brands.

They had finally changed the display to the Easter display, and there was a filming crew to do their Easter advert thing. I think I briefly saw the ad somewhere… and I thought, wow, I was there before it started!

After shopping, I found a place called Super Super Congee and Noodles that sold noodles with beef brisket and wonton and Shanghai style fried beef and flat noodles. I took it back to the hotel as a takeaway… Obviouslly I used the self-order kiosk machines. I had time to choose as other people like to order at the desk.

It was amazing! I wondered why a lot of the older generation went there to eat. Good portions. I even stopped the person packing too many sauces because I was going to throw them away anyway… it would be such a waste.

The beef brisket was tender. Wonton was fresh. The noodles was great. The Shanghai noodles was a bit oily but well dressed in sauce, and very tasty!

Total came to $110! Amazing price. And better than the prices in Shatin New Town Plaza!

Address: Shop 2243, 2/F, MOSTown (Phase 4), 18 On Luk Street, Ma On Shan

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In the evening, after my long outing of shopping, I had two requests (for the same thing) that same day, and another mission from MummyGeek.

So I went out again! I was tired and a little grumpy but I still forced myself to go out… I also wanted to find the Boox Palma before going back home (at least have a look for it), but every shop I went into had an old Boox, Kindle, Kobo and other ebook devices. No shop had it! (I eventually bought a secondhand one on the Boox Euroshop for a cheaper price). The reason I wanted it is because I could read either Kobo, Kindle and Libby ebooks all in one device in the palm of my hand with an e-ink screen… A lot of people seem to love it… 🤭

The two requests of the same request were from two different people – it was to find gum for Mrs Hen and Mrs Travels. Hahahahahah… I guess I had to go and buy them. You can’t find some of these flavours in Europe.

In the midst of looking for gum and a bigger 7Eleven store, where I knew there was in the other, older shopping mall, I bought my dinner… A McDonald’s… This was MummyGeek’s request. To enjoy myself with fattening food before I returned back. I had used the self-service kiosk. Bought a Chicken Nugget Happy Meal with an orange juice, and a Chicken Sub meal with 2 hot wings, a milkshake (I think it was chocolate or Oreo flavour… can’t remember). They don’t seem to do Happy Meals in boxes anymore…

The girl packing my food was so slow, and too vigilant that she forgot the seaweed seasoning for my fries… 😫 I didn’t want to go back, so left it at that. (When I worked in McD’s, I just wanted to do things fast and get out ASAP!).

The most surprising part of this meal was the lid of the drinks. They use sippy cup style lids, so would pop back the tiny mouth covering part, and then lift the cup to your mouth and suck the drink out. They don’t use straws anymore… not even paper ones. I guess the HK McDonald’s marketing team already knew that paper straws are rubbish, it takes away the flavour from the drinks… I getcha! Well, I was happy with the new innovative lids. Reduce plastic waste but don’t create more waste than needed.

On the other hand the Happy Meal “toy” was not innovative enough… boring!

I was very, very stuffed (because of the late lunch and now early dinner). This meal cost me HK$83.50. Cheaper than the UK!!

Address: Shop 8 & 20, Level 3, Hilton Centre, 3-9 Sha Tin Centre St, Shatin, Hong Kong

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That night I drank alcohol! During my Ma On Shan visit in the morning, I had went into a Japanese convenience store and found a zero sugar chu-hi. Yay!! I’ve been looking forward to this!! Nice but bitter! Wished it had some sweetner in it… as it was fairly bitter.

Do you think zero sugar alcohol is getting more popular these days? Yes, I think it is. Especially for people who are health conscience or diabetic. It’s something to look forward to… I need to find this stuff in the UK (haven’t been to Japan Centre for a while…).

End of Day 15.